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Inferno
Keith Lowe
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Description for Inferno
paperback. In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326.
In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.
Inferno is a searing account of terrifying destruction: of how and why the Allies dropped a hail of high-explosive and incendiary bombs; of blizzards of sparks, hurricane-force winds and 800-degree temperatures; of survivors cowering in basements or struggling along melting streets; of a city and its people near annihilated from above.
Inferno is an epic story of human ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241964248
SKU
V9780241964248
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Keith Lowe
Keith Lowe is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Second World War. He is the author of Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 and Savage Continent, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He has spoken often on television and radio, both in Britain and the United States, and his books ... Read more
Reviews for Inferno
A real triumph: shocking, yet sensitive and supremely fair-minded. This is a wonderful book about hellish events.
Richard Holmes The story of that hellish summer night is one Lowe tells well, unbliningly, exactly as he should...a tour de force
Sunday Times
Compelling, startling and gripping. The definitive account of a great tragedy
A.C. Grayling
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Richard Holmes The story of that hellish summer night is one Lowe tells well, unbliningly, exactly as he should...a tour de force
Sunday Times
Compelling, startling and gripping. The definitive account of a great tragedy
A.C. Grayling
Financial ... Read more